One man was shot to death and another was wounded when a fight broke out at a New Year’s Day party in Gardena, police said Saturday.

The violence was preliminarily believed to be gang-related, police said.

The shootings occurred about 11:20 p.m. Friday at a party at a business in a complex in the 13800 block of Normandie Avenue, Gardena police Lt. Steve Prendergast said.

At some point, a fight broke out and shots were fired.

Gregory Hegwood, 26, of Los Angeles was pronounced dead at the scene. Patrick Whittington, 26, of Gardena suffered one gunshot wound to his upper body and was taken to a hospital. He is expected to survive, police said.

Larry Altman has covered crime and court proceedings in Southern California since 1987. A graduate of Cal State Northridge, where he served as editor of the college newspaper, Altman has worked for the Daily Breeze since 1990. The Society of Professional Journalists named him a "Distinguished Journalist" in Los Angeles in 2006. Altman's work was featured twice on CBS' “48 Hours” and he appeared eight times with “Nancy Grace," who called him "dear." He has covered hundreds of homicides and many trials. Altman has crawled through a mausoleum to open a coffin, confronted husbands who killed their wives, wives who killed their husbands, and his coverage helped put a child molester and a murderer in prison. In his spare time, Altman is an avid Los Angeles Lakers and Dodgers fan, is the commissioner of a Fantasy Baseball league with several other current and former newspapermen, runs a real estate empire and likes to watch old movies on TCM.